War, famine, genocide, and hotly contested elections. We think of Orwell’s novel 1984 as presaging a dystopian future, however it’s this year of 2024 which is delivering horror, unconscionable suffering, and threats from the authoritarians of the far-right. A bleak scenario, only faintly ameliorated by the election results in Britain and France. Whilst Gaza is […]
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IWD 2024 – War and Women
Whilst International Women’s Day aims to strengthen women’s dignity and worth, women caught in conflicts across the globe are subjected to barbaric, inhuman abuses. This blog, being written against the backdrop of the punitive war being waged by the Israeli state in Gaza, will focus on the unconscionable transgressions against women during wars. The wars […]
Israel’s Brutal Harvest
Injustice provides hollow foundations for the establishment of a state. Israel has always had the choice to pursue peaceful, social and economic pathways to live in some kind of amity with those they had dispossessed, no matter how contentious, bitter or complex the process. Israel could have chosen to engage in bridge-building, conciliation, compromise, co-existence, […]
“Nowhere Safe & Hospitals are a Warzone”
I do not believe in violence. Not as an instrument of justice, nor as a form of strength. Violence has plagued our planet for centuries and created every ill known to humanity: generational suffering, enmity, torture, hostility, racism, poverty, death, destruction, hunger, starvation, disease, homelessness, refugeehood and much more. Violence is not based on reason […]